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time, twenty-eight inches apart. If it is thought 

 best to plant thirty-five inchesa part, let Nos. 3 and 

 8 discharge ; in each case the wheel of the drill will 

 answer for a guide in the return bout. When sown 

 broadcast, the leaves stop short of full develop- 

 ment, the stalk is weak, and liable to be thrown 

 down by storms, and has not the strength to right 

 itself. It is hardly necessary to add that the ground 

 should be well manured and cultivated. Mr. Har- 

 ris Lewis says that he has found Stowell's Ever- 

 green sweet corn makes the richest milk of all the 

 plants he has tried. 



Sorghum.. 



My experience in growing sorghum for a soiling 

 crop has been so satisfactory that I can heartily 

 recommend it to any one wishing to try it. It has 

 but a single fault. It is slow at starting. In 1878 

 several farmers, including myself, became inter- 

 ested in the question of growing sugar cane (sor- 

 ghum) which we had made into syrup. I had 

 planted about an acre, but it did not seem to germi- 

 nate, and I bought seed for as much more. To my 

 surprise the former planting came on all right, and 

 I had twice as much as I cared to have made into 

 syrup, and the result was that we tried it as a soil- 

 ing crop, and found that the cows not only ate it 

 with great relish, but that they made a slight in- 

 crease in the flow of milk. Subsequently I made a 

 practice of sowing it yearly, and have strongly ad- 



